Will it be a battle between Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez and former mayor Evelio Leonardia again in the 2025 polls.
Leonardia on his Facebook page Monday night announced that he will officially be filing his certificate of candidacy for congressman of Bacolod City Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 1.
He will file his COC after a mass at the San Sebastian Cathedral.
Meanwhile, Benitez announced that “he is 90 percent sure that he is inclined to run for congressman”, his spokesman Caesar Distrito said Monday night.
Benitez defeated Leonardia for mayor of Bacolod in 2022.
Leonardia is running under the Nacionalista Party, while Benitez is a member of the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.*